page_title: Fedor Linde
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Fedor Linde / Biography / Early life
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Франгмент из списков поступивших в Петришуле в 1891 году.
context_page_description: Fedor Fedorovich Linde was a Russian revolutionary sergeant and army commissar. He played an 'unsung but crucial role' in turning the tide of the February Revolution, in words of historian Orlando Figes.
  He was a sergeant in the Finland Regiment of St. Petersburg. For his role in leading a demonstration against Milyukov he was sent as a commissar to the army on the front by the Soviet. Here he became well known for convincing revolutionary units to continue fighting. He was killed trying to convince a group of soldiers to return to combat near Lutsk in 1917, and was hailed as a 'fallen fighter of the people's cause', receiving a hero's funeral.
context_section_description: Fedor Linde was the son of a German chemist and a Polish peasant woman. His mother grew up in a small farm near St. Petersburg, and was an innkeeper; the inn was popular among the Russian revolutionaries of the capital when they tried to avoid the police. In socialising with the guests, the 'tall, blonde and handsome', described as a 'romantic idealist', became involved in the revolutionary underground.
  He enrolled in the Mathematics Faculty of St. Petersburg University in 1899, and immediately became a leading figure in the student protest movement.
caption: List of students admitted to Petrischule from 1863 to 1912. From the archives of the Petrischule. Fedor's name is here written Friedrich.
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